You thought it was bad the NSA was digging into your email and chat, and your phone logs. Wait till they're hovering patrols over your neighborhood any time a "person of interest" is nearby. Enough of this Orwellian shit. No drones in our skies except for emergency responder use (floods, whatever). Period.

I dunno, I'm pretty excited for the day I can use a website or phone app to order a burrito drone-delivered to exactly where I'm at... although I worry about what happens when the fleets of delivery drones start carrying the equivalent of web tracking cookies.

I dunno, I'm pretty excited for the day I can use a website or phone app to order a burrito drone-delivered to exactly where I'm at... although I worry about what happens when the fleets of delivery drones start carrying the equivalent of web tracking cookies.

I'd be more worried about the anonymous pizza delivery ddos, where you have hundreds of pizza drones converging on your location.

I dunno, I'm pretty excited for the day I can use a website or phone app to order a burrito drone-delivered to exactly where I'm at... although I worry about what happens when the fleets of delivery drones start carrying the equivalent of web tracking cookies.

I'd be more worried about the anonymous pizza delivery ddos, where you have hundreds of pizza drones converging on your location.

Unless its a sporting event (e.g.Papa John's Stadium) I think "hundreds" of pizza drones is a little hyperbolic...

That said.... I could go for a hot pizza delivered to my seat at a game.... ...or, If they could get me ice cold beer, while in line to use the restroom...."hundreds" seems more credible....

it is worrying that no one is talking about noise pollution , this is the time to introduce regulations to prevent the eternal buzzing noise from the overhead corporate drone army . the industry is still young enough to set a standard that the drones can’t be audible from the ground at its operating altitude , before its to late to prevent it.

and off course there need to be regulations to prevent crashes and to handle lost communication link, deal with privacy issues and so on.

As mentioned above by others, I can see drones being extremely helpful for search and rescue, first-responder and SOME law enforcement situations. Aside from that, honestly, why do we need drones in our airspace? I don't like to be paranoid, but this really feels like another step towards a total surveillance state.

I for one don't trust this government with drones, let alone all governments that will come in the future. If we value our freedom, I believe that we must take a strong stand against government surveillance or we give future governments "tyranny in a box."

We should pressure our politicians to force all intelligence agencies to comply with all restrictions in the US Constitution. There should be no spying on American citizens without probable cause and a specific warrant as guaranteed in the US Constitution.

And, to encourage correct behavior, we should push for investigations and criminal prosecutions against all who have acted outside the bounds of the Constitution, even if they were ordered to do so. We must make it clear that individuals will be held accountable for their actions. "I was just obeying orders" was not accepted as valid excuse for Nazi soldiers who committed war crimes, and it should not be accepted as a valid excuse for taking unconstitutional actions against US citizens.

A good place to start would be an investigation and trial for Eric Holder and those members of the Department of Justice who broke the law when they knowingly sold guns to members of the drug cartels, guns that were used in numerous murders. And then we can move on to the NSA and those who have been spying on American citizens.

We have no freedom if members of the government are not held accountable when they break the law.

I dunno, I'm pretty excited for the day I can use a website or phone app to order a burrito drone-delivered to exactly where I'm at... although I worry about what happens when the fleets of delivery drones start carrying the equivalent of web tracking cookies.

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Paul RodgersArs Praetorianet SubscriptorGuess its time to get my drone hunting permit.

Yes free burritos falling from the sky! The real money will be in the remote override device or GPS spoofers that will freak them out.

Please stop calling these glorified R/C Models "drones". Drones are autonomous; these require pilots. If the public gets used to calling these "drones", and gets the false impression that every drone has a human in command, then when the real drones come it will be hard to get public support for limiting them.

" The small unmanned aerial systems rules will include training standards for small drone pilots, as well as medical requirements for their 'flight physical.' ...small drones will still have safety reporting requirements, will have to be registered, and will require a pilot certificate to operate."

My 7 year old daughter is going to ask Santa to bring her a Ladybug Quadcopter for Christmas. How do I explain to her that Santa can handle the $30 for the Mini Ladybug Quadcopter, but Santa can't cover the FAA mandated registration fees, flight physical exam, training course, and pilot certificate fee.

Please tell me that the FAA is going to include a common sense cutoff that says anything under 2 pounds is a hobby toy and is NOT included in these new regulations.

it is worrying that no one is talking about noise pollution , this is the time to introduce regulations to prevent the eternal buzzing noise from the overhead corporate drone army . the industry is still young enough to set a standard that the drones can’t be audible from the ground at its operating altitude , before its to late to prevent it.

and off course there need to be regulations to prevent crashes and to handle lost communication link, deal with privacy issues and so on.

I'd rather they require them to emit noise, so we can hear them coming, like they're doing with electric cars.

I dunno, I'm pretty excited for the day I can use a website or phone app to order a burrito drone-delivered to exactly where I'm at... although I worry about what happens when the fleets of delivery drones start carrying the equivalent of web tracking cookies.

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Paul RodgersArs Praetorianet SubscriptorGuess its time to get my drone hunting permit.

Yes free burritos falling from the sky! The real money will be in the remote override device or GPS spoofers that will freak them out.

I for one don't trust this government with drones, let alone all governments that will come in the future. If we value our freedom, I believe that we must take a strong stand against government surveillance or we give future governments "tyranny in a box."

We should pressure our politicians to force all intelligence agencies to comply with all restrictions in the US Constitution. There should be no spying on American citizens without probable cause and a specific warrant as guaranteed in the US Constitution.

And, to encourage correct behavior, we should push for investigations and criminal prosecutions against all who have acted outside the bounds of the Constitution, even if they were ordered to do so. We must make it clear that individuals will be held accountable for their actions. "I was just obeying orders" was not accepted as valid excuse for Nazi soldiers who committed war crimes, and it should not be accepted as a valid excuse for taking unconstitutional actions against US citizens.

A good place to start would be an investigation and trial for Eric Holder and those members of the Department of Justice who broke the law when they knowingly sold guns to members of the drug cartels, guns that were used in numerous murders. And then we can move on to the NSA and those who have been spying on American citizens.

We have no freedom if members of the government are not held accountable when they break the law.

you had me until your fallacy about "Fast and Furious".

The real reasons the guns went south is because gun laws here are so soft that you can walk into the store, spend $10k on guns, sign that you intend to keep all the guns and walk into the street and sell all of said guns to someone in the street without ID.

True Story, the guns walked because arrest warrants were refused to be signed under above conditions.

Yippee, our local small government "constitutional" (abusing) hero of the tea party sheriff Joe Arpaio is already on record stating he can't wait to be flying his own drones.

the unfortunate part about Obama leaving office will come when the aging general public stop questioning the government.

Yeah, how is Obama doing with that whole NSA invasion of privacy deal again?

You mean the invasion of privacy that is authorized by the patriot act that who signed into office?

Oh come on! Both sides want the NSA and voted for the patriot act. This isn't Bushs fault or Obamas fault. This is the fault of the American people for allowing our elected officials to get away with this and even worse defend them for it.